Thursday, April 10, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Local man stabbed after driving dispute
A Lawrence man was stabbed by his girlfriend Tuesday night after he tried to stop her from driving his car, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Jimmie W. Tolbert, 33, of B18 E.
14th St., told police that he and his girlfriend left a local club at about
10 p.m. and were driving home
when he tried to stop her from
driving, police said.
Tolbert got out of the car near Seventh and Arkansas streets and then went back to get his keys from Janis L. Bentley, 29, also of 818 E. 14th St., police said. When he went back to the car, Bentley stabbed him with a knife, police said.
Police said Tolbert then went to a coin-operated laundry at Sixth and Arkansas and told a customer to call an ambulance. Tolbert was listed in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Bentley was charged yesterday with aggravated battery and is being held in Douglas County Jail. Bond was set at $15,000.
Debaters take fifth
The KU debate team of John Culver, Overland Park junior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, took fifth place at the National Debate Tournament this week.
the tournament, which began Friday at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., ended Tuesday when the University of Kentucky defeated Georgetown University for the national title.
The University of Kansas' fifth-place finish was the fourth time in six years that KU has placed at least fifth at the national tournament.
In addition to Culver and Lopez, the KU team of Barry Pickens, Winfield freshman, and Pat Whalen, San Antonio, Texas, freshman, also was among the 64 teams invited to the national tournament. They were defeated in the preliminary rounds over the weekend.
After making it into the final 16 teams, Culver and Lopez were defeated by the host team, Dartmouth, on Monday.
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Applicants will meet Wednesday with the Kansan board, the governing body of the newspaper. The editors and business managers will be chosen afterward.
Applications for other news and business staff positions are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday in 200 Stauffer Flint.
Art director to speak
Weather
The director of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., will speak at 7 p.m. Monday in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the mid-60s. Southeast winds will blow at 5 to 15 mph. Tennight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 65 or 70.
From staff and wire reports.
Jays strut to be spirit mascot
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
Big Jay and Baby Jay kicked, strutted and yelled in front of the crowd of seven.
Then, pulling off the Baby Jay top, Susan Auer tried to catch her breath.
"Ever since I was little I came to KU games with my parents and the Jayhawks were my favorite," said Auer, a Tula, Oka, sophomore.
"I really didn't think about them as being real people until I came here," she said.
Auer and about 30 other students tried out last night in Anschutz Sports Pavilion for the honor of wearing the yellow boots and big-beaked body of the two KU mascots.
the students performed in the mascot costumes as the judges chanted Chalk, and then danced to a tape of the KU fight song.
to a tape of the Ice Right Squad.
"Big Jay is supposed to be strutty and strong and the little one is supposed to be a nuisance," said Elaine Brady, spirit squat coordinator.
Brady and the other judges rated the students on their appearance in the costume, personality projection, balance and rhythm, a 12-minute run for stamina and overall execution.
She said the panel would pick five Big Jays and seven or eight Baby Jays as finalists last night and make the final decision after interviews today.
The only other qualification, according to outgoing Big Jay, Janet Smalley, is an abundance of energy.
energy.
"They need to have the ability to reach your fans, to stand out from the crowd," said Smalley, Iowa City. Iowa senior.
free admission to KU sporting events and a small monthly stipend of $35 are nice, Smallley said, but she likes mascot life because she gets involved with athletics and its fans.
"The kids — each one is different." Smallley said. "Some of them are scared, others are ready to dance with you."
Smalley started three years ago when the Big Jay weighed 85 pounds. Cheering on the field in Memorial Stadium in temperatures higher than 100 degrees was more of a chore back then, she said.
Like many of the participants, Desiree Lutjen,
Independence, Mo., freshman, said she wanted to
be the mascot to play a more active role in the
games.
The costume has since been remade and now weighs about 35 pounds, she said.
games.
"Because I'm a sports fanatic and I want to get more involved," Lutjen said. But she realizes it would not be all fun and games.
Rob Burnett, Manhattan junior, helps two students with the Jayhawk costumes for mascot tryouts. Burnett, a varsity yell leader, helped coordinate about 30 students who tried out last night at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"You have to support your team win or lose," she said. "When they're losing, that's when they need the extra spirit to get them up."
Russ Phillips, Ulyses freshman, said he thought he could bring some excitement to the games as Big Jay, and he knew what he needed to get the position: "I need to know how to strut."
While the mascots strutted for the judges, about
60 women were in the background learning the cheer to the KU fight song blaring over a loudspeaker.
The women will be vying for the 10-member pompon squad today. Twenty women will be picke-
come to come back for finalist tryouts on Sunday, Brady said. Next week, after three days of clinics,
varsity and junior varsity cheerleaders will be chosen.
KU police donate unclaimed bicycles
Staff writer
By Brian Whepley Staff writer
The Salvation Army's has a new set of wheels - a truckload of bicycles donated by the KU police.
Yesterday, the KU police donated a truckload of bikes that the department hadn't been able to return to their owners. Some bikes had been found on campus and others were evidence recovered during investigations.
The KU police occasionally gives charities, such as the Salvation Army, unclaimed possessions, said Karrie Botello, storekeeper. The department spreads the donations around so as not to play favorites.
"We hold everything for six months," said Botello, who's in charge of KU police's lost and found. "We have to make an effort to return things."
Sometimes owners can't be found and sometimes they don't show up to claim their property, she said.
There are a times when you contact people and they never show," Botello said. "They say, 'Yes, I'll come and get it,' and they never do." When something is found and brought to the department, Botello tries to identify and call its owner. Sometimes students are hard to reach, she said, so she calls at different times for a couple of days. If she still can't reach the owner, she'll try again the next week.
After six months, the department's policy is to donate unclaimed items to a non-profit organization such as the Salvation Army, Catholic Services or local thrift shops.
The KU police drop off the lost items or the Salvation Army picks
The donations are sent to a Kansas City distribution center where they are repaired and priced before being sent back to area stores, Lanoue said.
In the past, the department has given some of the lost items to the Student Senate because they most likely belonged to students, Botello said.
Bicycles were given to be used in the white bike program, Botello said. In that program, the bikes were placed around campus for use by students, who were supposed to leave them for the next person to use.
Unclaimed books were sold and the money put in the Senate's general fund, Botello said. Recently, the
department has not given the Senate found items because there hasn't been much interest.
On rare occasions, some of the items given away are seized evidence from closed or unsolved criminal cases, said Detective Sgt. Scott Ferris. It is usually a long legal process to get rid of evidence. A court order is needed for evidence to be destroyed, sold or given away, Ferris said.
State law requires the evidence be sold at a public auction, but there are exceptions. Because of lack of storage space and fewer recent public auctions, the department was allowed to donate some of the bicycles.
In the future, the KU police want to set up a centralized lost and found system. Sgt. John Brothers said.
Senators criticize committee structure
Staff writer
Student senators say that the Senate committee structure is ineffective but that there are no easy solutions to the committees' problems.
By Piper Scholfield
David Epstein, student body president, said yesterday that he had surveyed senators and found that most thought there was a need for change in the committee structure.
Epstein said the problem was one of communication between Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats.
The committees could argue for hours over a bill, he said. If the bill was passed on to Senate, Senate might argue for several more hours
on the same issue.
"Committees should bake the cake and Senate should ice the cake," Epstein said. "The way it is now, the committee bakes the cake, and then we rebake the cake."
There are five Senate committees: Cultural Affairs, University Affairs, Finance, Minority Affairs and Student Rights. There are about 230 non-elected committee members. Some senators are also committee members.
Epstein said communications between Senate and committees had improved this year because the committee chairmen were more active than they had been in the past.
The chairmen now are required to
include written arguments for or against a bill when it is sent to Senate, Epstein said. Those written arguments make it easier for senators to discuss a bill effectively.
Liz Walz, Association of University Residence Halls senator, said the committees did not always deal wisely with the bills.
Some bills are killed by the committees before they are even considered by Senate, Walz said. Other bills are passed on to Senate without very thorough consideration in committee.
tees," she said. "It's a communication and a personality gap."
Walz said some senators thought committees should be composed only of senators but others thought senators should be excluded from the committees.
"There's a gap between non-senators and senators in commit-
some senators are afraid that one or two senators could dominate the actions of a committee, whether for their own ends or not," she said.
Grant Steinle, Finance Committee chairman, said that he thought the present committee structure did not work but that he also did not know the answer to the committees' woes.
answer of the committee.
He is strongly opposed to Senate taking power away from the committees, he said.
JDI seeking signatures for petition
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Members of the Jayhawk Defense Initiative need about 2,000 more signatures to put their issue on a student ballot, but the president of the organization is confident the group will have enough signatures by the end of the semester.
I honestly feel a change of attitude on campus," Kirstin Myers, Shawnee junior and president of JDI, said yesterday. "I think a lot more people understand now what we're trying to do."
The group began a petition drive on March 28 to push for the construction of a nuclear fallout shelter beneath the campus, saying the drive was intended to bring students out of a "nuclear malsaie."
Myers said the group planned to get at least 3,000 signatures this semester to assure themselves of a place on the ballot.
As of yesterday, she said, the group had 600 signatures.
JDI needs the signatures of about 2,500 students, or 10 percent of the student body, to put the issue on a student ballot. JDI intends to ask the state Legislature for money to build the shelter and wants KU students to back it up.
Myers said collecting signatures had been difficult so far, but she expected it to become easier.
"If by some incredibly remote chance we don't get enough signatures, we'll re-do the process in the fall." she said.
Myers said, "We wanted to bring the nuclear problem to the people's attention, and there's no quicker way to get someone's attention than talk about moving 26,000 people underground."
JDI members said that the Reagan administration's policies had drastically increased the chances for a nuclear war and that the administration therefore had an obligation to save people during a nuclear war.
Group members said they had studied many government documents that said a nuclear war would be survivable.
Glenn Shrirlife, Ottawa, Canada, graduate student and chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said he had advised Myers to keep getting signatures this semester so a campus vote could be taken next fall.
Even if the initiative doesn't pass, group members still plan to take the issue to the Kansas Legislature.
"As long as the petition's valid when it's turned in it'll probably carry over to the fall," he said.
"A lot of people consider building a bomb shelter to be absurd, but we're just borrowing our absurdity from the government." Myers said.
In the early stages of the petition drive, some group members wore plastic spoons on campus as a symbol of their support for JDI, but they stopped because they felt conspicuous. Soon, however, the spoon-wearers will be back, Myers said.
"We're going to the Legislature regardless, but having the students behind us will give us extra credibility." Mvs said.
"Before it was kind of embarrassing to be the only ones on campus wearing the spoons, but now we'll have safety in numbers," Myers said.
The group plans to have a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony using plastic spoons on the grounds near Fraser Hall.
"We decided to use plastic spoons because they won't do any damage to the grounds but you can dig with them," Myers said.
She added that, at that time, the group would announce more specific platforms on arms control.
JDI's efforts might be aided with Student Senate financing.
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